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Day-Trippin’ Across Wisconsin: Mineral Point
Mineral Point, an early boom town, remains an attraction in Wisconsin for the way it preserved its Cornish trappings.
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Wisconsin Teachers Turn to Amazon, Facebook for Community Help Filling Their Classrooms
Amid rising inflation, and pay bumps not on par with the fast-rising cost of living, teachers hope #ClearTheList will prepare them for a new school year. “Hi there! I am a music teacher in a small suburban school in Muskego, WI.” “Hello! I am a second grade teacher in Green Bay.” The posts are everywhere.…
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Tim Michels Opposes Marriage Equality
Republican nominee for Governor Tim Michels is standing by his 2004 opposition to same sex marriage in his bid to lead the state in 2022. At the time of his failed 2004 run for the United States Senate, Michels supported a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman, which would have…
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DNR Retirees and ‘Citizen Scientists’ Help Wisconsin Species to Survive and Thrive
Opportunities abound for help monitoring everything from birds and bees to turtles and toads. There’s also a new lake that someone will get to name.
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Here’s How the Inflation Reduction Act Will Help Wisconsin Families
The package lowers healthcare costs, incentivizes companies to adopt renewable energies and produce clean energy products; provides consumer rebates for those products, and delivers tens of billions of dollars of direct investments to American communities—funded by taxes on billion-dollar corporations.
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In An Increasingly Divided America, Joe Biden Just Keeps Stacking Up Wins
Joe Biden signed the CHIPS bill into law yesterday, making a massive investment in US manufacturing and bringing billions in new investment to American shores and an estimated 70,000 to 90,000 family sustaining jobs to American working families. It is the first of many new bills he will be signing in the coming weeks, a…
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Evers Putting Rescue Plan Dollars To Work Expanding Mental Health Workforce
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers announced recently that more than $14 million in federal funds will be put towards expanding the mental health workforce in the Badger State. The commitment from Evers will go specifically to addressing the shortage of mental health providers who work with young people. In the wake of the pandemic, our kids…
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Johnson Votes NO on $35 Per Month Insulin Cap
During floor debate in the U.S. Senate over the Inflation Reduction Act, Republicans – including Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson – blocked an amendment that would have capped insulin costs at $35 per month. Wisconsin’s other U.S. Senator, Tammy Baldwin, and all of her Democratic colleagues voted for the cap, which fell three votes short of…
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Connecticut Businessman Michels Will Run for Wisconsin Governor After Defeating Kleefisch
Road company magnate spent more than $10 million of his personal wealth to top a once-popular former lieutenant governor.
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National Democrats Already Charging Out of the Gate with Ads Targeting Ron Johnson
National Republicans and many other groups will also spend big in Wisconsin to prop up the GOP’s most vulnerable reelection target.
